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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 11 April 2012

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 16
  2. 23
  3. 42
  4. 44
  5. 47
  6. 2

Jackpot$94,000,000

The crowdHeld about as often as an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/59 + 1/35 · Jan 2012 – Oct 2015draw 25 of 388 under them

← 2012-04-07All recent draws2012-04-14 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:53 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed16 23 42 44 47 + 229 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Powerball was a 5/59 + 1/35 · Jan 2012 – Oct 2015 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 24 draws before it — not against today’s pool.

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This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 11 April 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

65oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 65 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 83% of every possible ticket.

  • sum72th
  • odd32th
  • low32th
  • widest gap47th
  • neighbours35th
  • spread20th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 2 of each

162times
233times
421time
442times
474times
Stars · a separate 1-of-35 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 1 of each

20times

Every number was expected about that many times after 24 draws, and they scatter around it. Warm means more than expected, cool means fewer — and a cold number arriving is exactly what cold numbers do.

Frequency Explorer →

Its nearest twin

Shares 1 of 5 numbers (16) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 28 March 2012 — its closest relative in 24 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (7 April 2012): nothing carried over. Chance says 37% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (3% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

172

The numbers add up to 172 — the 72th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. No two numbers side by side. 31% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

44 had not appeared for 23 draws. A number waits about 12 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.

Gap & “Overdue” Tracker →

How many people held it

A line like this is played about 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 20% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →

Prize breakdown · 2012-04-11

  • Lines in play≈ 12Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$5.0Mto 386k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 32lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.07

Where the money went

  • Match 559%$3.0M
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball8.7%$440.0K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball18%$891.6K
  • 5 other tiers14%$712.2K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.07 by chance$94,000,000
  2. Match 53≈ 2.4 by chance$1,000,000
  3. Match 4 plus Bonus Ball19≈ 19 by chance$10,000
  4. Match 4613≈ 647 by chance$100
  5. Match 3 plus Bonus Ball996≈ 1.0k by chance$100
  6. Match 2 plus Bonus Ball16,878≈ 17k by chance$7.00
  7. Match 334,739≈ 34k by chance$7.00
  8. Match 1 plus Bonus Ball110,005≈ 111k by chance$4.00
  9. Match 0 plus Bonus Ball222,891≈ 223k by chance$4.00
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈12M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 613 winners, 5% fewer than the 647 an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

Show the published table
MatchWinnersPrize each
Match 0 plus Bonus Ball222,891$4.00
Match 1 plus Bonus Ball110,005$4.00
Match 2 plus Bonus Ball16,878$7.00
Match 334,739$7.00
Match 3 plus Bonus Ball996$100
Match 4613$100
Match 4 plus Bonus Ball19$10,000
Match 53$1,000,000
Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$94,000,000